Comedian Joe Wong takes a page from Late Night: he follows Van Halen’s Jump soundtrack to open his acts. “I had a near death experience yesterday. I walked by a graveyard”. Mind you it’s China where smoking is finally banned in public places. Speaking of public space, I too had a near death experience. I…

A generation has grown up in the shadow of 9/11, two subsequent wars and one huge recession. Graduates face dim job prospects and heavy burden of student loan. Yet Tim Cook of Apple urges them to follow their North Star. It must be you, he said. He must be kidding! It’s Washington, where skepticism morphs…

If asked, we all say we buy on values. When not asked, we buy on price ( never mind all the time searching for the bottom price). Trade pacts and trade policies. We shifted manufacturing jobs South of the border, only to ship them across the pond. Then what happened? China grows its industrial muscles,…

Let’s pretend you are invited to give a commencement address to 2015 graduates. What role models should we recommend to these future leaders? Most subjects have been touched on by earlier speakers like Steve Jobs (get going) and Jill Abramson (get real). Let’s brainstorm, or SWOT, to find a more realistic leadership model. First is…

Mr Ben King has died. From here on out, we are on our own in Spanish Harlem. No one is going to “stand by me”. He described his singing career as “accidental” and that he felt like he’d been cheating (fate?). A lot of great things in life are just that: accidental. Last week, I…

President Ford, before being sworn-in, had been a good team player both on the football field and on the floor of the House. As an unelected President, he pardoned his predecessor and “paroled” 131,000 of us, who quickly were scattered into the four corners. In the process, he “de-obligated” the Treasury from its fiscal nightmare…

H for Hillary, or R for Rubio? Huff Post on the go! Twitter and mobile, always on the run. I experienced being “on the run” almost 40 years to date. Ironically, McCartney’s Band On The Run was blasting out from my neighbor’s bunk on Wake Island, in the middle of the Pacific. I was half-way…

This generation might learn about Moses, as portrayed by Christian Slater. But previous one, Charlton Heston. “Let my people go”, or else. The blood of the Lamb at the door post (later on, the same Jewish race got hunted down by the Nazis as if history got no other script). It’s Easter. And America 2050…

Google has just made an offer to pay its new CFO 70 Million USD, thus making Silicon Valley the new “Wall Street” – albeit with relaxed rules on dress code and corporate behavior. Speaking of corporate mis-behavior, an extreme case came to mind, that of Fox and Fidelity. In the early 90’s Fox ex-President Stephen…